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> On Sun, 29 Sep 1996 sthaug @
nethelp .
no wrote:
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> > [Adam Safier <asafier @
csc .
com>]
> >
> > | Rummor has it that a Pentium 200 running SOLARI x86 2.5.1 will outperform
> > | a SPARCStation 5. But a SPARCStation 5 can have 9 ethernet interfaces
> > | (motherboard + 2 quad cards) while a Pentium usually has a limited number
> > | of free slots. (I know about specialty motherboards but am trying to
> > | stick to a "common" platform.)
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> This amazes you? I/O on sparcs is not that great. Our main server a P-100
> with 64 Megs of ram and FreeBSD can put our totally unused just sits there
> SS20 with 128 megs of ram to shame. For I/O, and memory writes. Im not
> saying sparcs are trash just that there not as whoopy as one would think.
>
Yes, however you forget to mention which SPARC module(s) you are using.
Is this SS20 running 50,60,75,100,125 or 150 modules with or without the
1Mbyte Cache ? Anyhow a 50 Mhz module runs on the MBus at only 40MHz.
Not really a comparison to a 100MHz Pentium.
BTW > Solaris 2.4 is needed to use 64 bits on the S-Bus
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